Rush: Fifty Something Tour

[rael]

Favourite era for me was everything up to moving pictures both album wise and live.
78 and 79 shows were tremendous, but last time I seen them was at the arena, maybe clockwork angels tour? Geddys voice had obviously changed a lot and I wasn't keen, musically fantastic though. I'd probably go see them if they played up here again ( unlikely) but wouldn't travel.

 

[fyl2u]

Drums are the worst. There hasn't been a good drum sound since the mid 90s.


The drummers themselves are often to blame anarl. Lashing cymbals about like they're going out of fashion. I'd ban cymbals me.

Oooh controversial!

1999 - "Just Like This" by Limp Bizkit has an INCREDIBLE drum sound. Whack it up loud on good speakers or headphones and the snare feels like it's biting you in the eyes! (in a good way )

 

[chriswallace85]

Oooh controversial!

1999 - "Just Like This" by Limp Bizkit has an INCREDIBLE drum sound. Whack it up loud on good speakers or headphones and the snare feels like it's biting you in the eyes! (in a good way )

I'm not putting any Limp Bizkit song on ffs.


Now you know for certain that it's my advice you want to listen to @Arfa Sleep.

 

[fyl2u]

I'm not putting any Limp Bizkit song on ffs.


Now you know for certain that it's my advice you want to listen to @Arfa Sleep.

Their first two albums, man. Before they went shit.

The first one, "3 Dollar Bill Y'All" was raw as hell and Durst sounded like a demented serial killer. Groundbreaking album.

And then on the second album "Significant Other" they obviously had a production budget now and Durst had ditched the "lunatic" persona for a more "rapper having a good time" vibe. Some great songs on it and it sounds incredible!

It was the third album where they turned to absolute turd for the next fifteen years or so.

I'm not putting any Limp Bizkit song on ffs.

Just put the first ten seconds on, so you can hear the drums intro before the main song kicks in.

 

[chriswallace85]

Their first two albums, man. Before they went shit.

The first one, "3 Dollar Bill Y'All" was raw as hell and Durst sounded like a demented serial killer. Groundbreaking album.

And then on the second album "Significant Other" they obviously had a production budget now and Durst had ditched the "lunatic" persona for a more "rapper having a good time" vibe. Some great songs on it and it sounds incredible!

It was the third album where they turned to absolute turd for the next fifteen years or so.


Just put the first ten seconds on, so you can hear the drums intro before the main song kicks in.

I hate that pingy snare sound. Hate it.

Sounds like it was nicked from Walk This Way anarl.

I like the RHCP and Chad Smith, but the pingy snare is a gripe.

 

[Big Jeff]

If you look at a rush gig you see a lot of older blokes in the crowd. Those blokes, and it is blokes, have been there forever.

The NME might hate Rush but their fans are incredibly loyal. They are now bringing their kids along introducing a new wave of fans.

 

[fyl2u]

I hate that pingy snare sound. Hate it.

Sounds like it was nicked from Walk This Way anarl.

I like the RHCP and Chad Smith, but the pingy snare is a gripe.

Sounds nowt like Walk This Way you silly sausage.

 

[Swindon On Tour]

If you look at a rush gig you see a lot of older blokes in the crowd. Those blokes, and it is blokes, have been there forever.

The NME might hate Rush but their fans are incredibly loyal. They are now bringing their kids along introducing a new wave of fans.

Spot on.
What a live band and so fortunate to have seen them a few times.

Their music lives on and the music reminds me of events and times in my life.
Every time I hear Subdivisions I think about camping out in fields on the 15th June and the start of the fishing season - this in memory of my Mate who sadly took his life.
I see the Sun rising, hear the Curlew and see him smiling as the Sun appears. “Be cool or be cast out.”

 

[JonMc]

If you look at a rush gig you see a lot of older blokes in the crowd. Those blokes, and it is blokes, have been there forever.

The NME might hate Rush but their fans are incredibly loyal. They are now bringing their kids along introducing a new wave of fans.

The NME hated rush because nothing they did suited their agenda. They were socialists who thought that social issues and good music were inseperable. Rush were three nice Canadians into Tolkien and a couple of Ayn Rand philosophies. Worlds apart.

Rush's song writing fell off for me a bit after Roll the Bones (even though it still worked live) but what do I know? Their constant drive to change their sound opened their music up to a new generation like you said.

 

[chriswallace85]

Sounds nowt like Walk This Way you silly sausage.

Course it does. Same groove on the hi-hat.

 

[fyl2u]

Course it does. Same groove on the hi-hat.

There's one open hat at the start of the phrase, and there the similarity ends.

 

[JAZZMANB]

I hate that pingy snare sound. Hate it.

Sounds like it was nicked from Walk This Way anarl.

I like the RHCP and Chad Smith, but the pingy snare is a gripe.

Not good on describing sounds but I like the tighter sound drums moved into
The kind of Paramore,rhcp , mars volta ,busy ,tight sound
Tool always nail the drums .
Walk this way is more like a backward gate sound
Rush to me were a period where I'd started playing and was looking for stuff . Can take or leave the early hobglin stuff and screeching. Moving pictures and permanent waves had a bit grit and edge to them . Outstanding albums . I followed the short hair phase for a bit as music went that way anyway.

 

[chriswallace85]

There's one open hat at the start of the phrase, and there the similarity ends.

Bass drum's playing practically the same thing.


Anyway. You were on about the drum sound on it. I'm not keen. As I said, that pingy snare does nowt for me.

This is a nice drum sound...

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Not good on describing sounds but I like the tighter sound drums moved into
The kind of Paramore,rhcp , mars volta ,busy ,tight sound
Tool always nail the drums .
Walk this way is more like a backward gate sound
Rush to me were a period where I'd started playing and was looking for stuff . Can take or leave the early hobglin stuff and screeching. Moving pictures and permanent waves had a bit grit and edge to them . Outstanding albums . I followed the short hair phase for a bit as music went that way anyway.

Terminology's a bit ower my head anarl, but I always liked the new wavey type drum sounds. Back of My Hand The Jags, Turning Japanese, The Cars... that sorta vibe. I suppose that sorta straight forward playing anarl.

 

[fyl2u]

Bass drum's playing practically the same thing.

Nuh uh.

Anyway. You were on about the drum sound on it. I'm not keen. As I said, that pingy snare does nowt for me.

Fair enough. I don't think that level of tight hard funkiness could have been achieved with a "less pingy" sound.

This is a nice drum sound...

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That is a nice sound too.

Terminology's a bit ower my head anarl, but I always liked the new wavey type drum sounds. Back of My Hand The Jags, Turning Japanese, The Cars... that sorta vibe. I suppose that sorta straight forward playing anarl.

This one?

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The legendary Simmons electronic drum sound used on so many 80's records.

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[chriswallace85]

Nuh uh.



Fair enough. I don't think that level of tight hard funkiness could have been achieved with a "less pingy" sound.



That is a nice sound too.



This one?

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I was thinking more their first record but I don't mind that.
As I say, I like the RHCP and there's a pingyness to their drum sound - sometimes more prominent than others. Sometimes it probably fits, but I like me snare to sound like a snare. I wanna hear the wires.

 

[fyl2u]

I was thinking more their first record but I don't mind that.

Turning Japanese is a weird one. There's somebody toggling the reverb on the snare on and off with successive beats, so you're getting:

No reverb
Loads of reverb
No reverb
Loads of reverb

...constantly.

Almost like a sound assistant was "turning Japanese" while holding the reverb send knob.

I was thinking more their first record but I don't mind that.
As I say, I like the RHCP and there's a pingyness to their drum sound - sometimes more prominent than others. Sometimes it probably fits, but I like me snare to sound like a snare. I wanna hear the wires.

Jags' Back Of My Hand is indeed a quality drum sound.

 

[chriswallace85]

Turning Japanese is a weird one. There's somebody toggling the reverb on the snare on and off with successive beats, so you're getting:

No reverb
Loads of reverb
No reverb
Loads of reverb

...constantly.

Almost like a sound assistant was "turning Japanese" while holding the reverb send knob.


Jags' Back Of My Hand is indeed a quality drum sound.

I had to give it a quick listen to see what ya meant. Yeah there's like a big splashy effect on every other beat. The drum sound is still good.

I think it's just something of that era I like. I remember me dad had a punky/new wave mix tape he'd play in the car when I was really young, so it's something that's staged with me. Cool For Cats, 2-4-6-8, Heart of Glass. Some great drum sounds there.


This is probably something else picked up in me formative years in me dad's car, but Christmas records of that era tend to have a really good drum sound anarl. Solstice Bells (and that whole album), Spaceman Came Travelling, The Waitresses, Phil Collins on Do They Know It's Christmas. A bit earlier, but I like the drum sound on Step Into Christmas anarl.

 

[JAZZMANB]

I had to give it a quick listen to see what ya meant. Yeah there's like a big splashy effect on every other beat. The drum sound is still good.

I think it's just something of that era I like. I remember me dad had a punky/new wave mix tape he'd play in the car when I was really young, so it's something that's staged with me. Cool For Cats, 2-4-6-8, Heart of Glass. Some great drum sounds there.


This is probably something else picked up in me formative years in me dad's car, but Christmas records of that era tend to have a really good drum sound anarl. Solstice Bells (and that whole album), Spaceman Came Travelling, The Waitresses, Phil Collins on Do They Know It's Christmas. A bit earlier, but I like the drum sound on Step Into Christmas anarl.

I struggle with a few Kate Bush albums because she moved over away from real drummers
I don't mind drum machines but on the right song

 

[Big Jeff]

My YouTube is full of videos.

Of Anika.

Of everything Rush.

It’s great!

 

[Chatty83]

Saw a class tribute earlier this year so the real thing must be unbelievable. I'd pretty much wrote Rush off as not going to happen so this has set me up for a fall now I'm excited then they don't come to the UK